Basketball: Yuki Kawamura becomes 4th Japanese player to appear in NBA

Yuki Kawamura became the fourth Japanese player to appear in the U.S. National Basketball Association on Friday as he debuted off the bench for the Memphis Grizzlies in the fourth quarter of their 128-108 loss to the Houston Rockets.The 23-year-old point guard played 3 minutes and 34 seconds at Toyota Center in Houston as he followed in the footsteps of Yuta Tabuse with the Phoenix Suns in 2004, Yuta Watanabe with the Grizzlies in 2018 and Rui Hachimura with the Washington Wizards in 2019.The smallest player in the league at 173 centimeters, Kawamura registered his first NBA assist when he …READ FULL ARTICLE